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An ankle is sprained. More significantly, a hamstring still is strained.
All in all, it hurts to move.
So every time he turns, someone wants to give Jazz swingman Ronnie Brewer advice. More often than not, it's both sage and welcomed.
There are words from his father, Ron Brewer, who also toiled in the NBA and knows the perils of playing injured. And there have been words from teammate Carlos Boozer, who understands all too well the cost of trying to return.
"He saw that I didn't play, and I told him what happened," Brewer, who sat out his fourth straight Rocky Mountain Revue summer- league game Thursday night, said of Boozer, who missed 49 games in the 2005-06 season because of a hamstring injury gone awry. "He said that he had a similar situation where he came back a little too early, and instead of pulling it he ended up tearing it.
"He (Boozer) said,...